Question

A concession stand vendor counts the money in the register.After a 1h,it has $42.75.After 5h it has $260.75.How much will be in the register at the end of an 8-hour shift? Do i use y=kx

Answer 1

260.75 - 42.75 = 218....218 was made in 4 hours.
@primeralph ...can you help.....not sure about this one

Answer 2

@satellite73 ....help please

Answer 3

@robtobey ...help please

Answer 4

@phi ....help

Answer 5

you did good. 218 make in 4 hours
how much more in the next 4 hours ?

Answer 6

make that the next 3 hours...

Answer 7

but if you go by that....then 218/4 =54.50 per hour and that doesn't work because he made 42.75 the 1st hr

Answer 8

does that make sense ?

Answer 9

all we can do is estimate. Exactly how is not clear. (in other words, this seems like a bad question)

if we had the choices, we might be able to figure out what the questioner was thinking in their pointy head.

Answer 10

lol......pointy head...good one.....it just seems like the vendor is not making the same amount of money each hour

Answer 11

but my best guess is to fit a line through the two points
(1,42.75) and (5,260.75)

find the equation of the line, and then find the y value for x=8

Answer 12

the questioner can do that.....thanks for the help....I was kinda lost on this one